[Taxacom] Phylocode vs Linnean nomenclature, again.

[Curtis Clark]

> From: "Curtis Clark"<lists at curtisclark.org>
> Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2011 3:28 AM
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>> Linnaean naming, as practiced in the latter part of the 20th C, had two
>> issues that made it difficult for phylogeneticists to use.
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> This appears to confuse phylogeny with cladistics, as many cladists do
> (either through being ignorant or indifferent). There was phylogenetic
> thinking long before there was such a thing as cladistics ...
>

I was using "phylogeneticist" in the commonly accepted meaning from the 
late 20th C. I'm fully aware of the history, being an old fart myself, 
but the term "cladist" is used pejoratively enough (including on this 
list) that I intentionally avoided it.

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Curtis Clark
Cal Poly Pomona